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...Crimson, both with mediocre records, clash at 10:30 in the first Big Three game of the season. The games as a rule go to the host squad, so Bruce Munro's team gets the nod in a game which promises, weather-wise, to be one of the strangest of the Harvard-Princeton series...
...name was the Trieste, after the troubled city whose funds helped build her, and she was about the strangest craft to sail the Tyrrhenian Sea since the time of Ulysses. Her skipper was an adventurer of 69 (Ulysses would have liked that), and her destination was one that Ulysses would have envied. The Trieste headed last week for the bottom of the sea, into the dark Tyrrhenian Trench to the west of southern Italy, where no ship steered by living men had ever gone before...
From Johannesburg, South Africa, Correspondent Alexander Campbell reports that of the 15,000 miles he has flown this year, the strangest trip was from the Gold Coast capital Accra to the Nigerian capital Lagos: "I flew by West African Airways, whose emblem is a flying elephant. The passengers were mostly natives. The men wore fezzes and flowing robes, or sun helmets and white shirts hanging outside their pants. The women wore print dresses, with the luggage balanced on their heads and babies slung on their backs. The plane was also packed with freight, including crates of squawking chickens. This packed...
Name: diprotodon. Age: uncertain. Domicile: Australia. Physical characteristics: looks like a rhinoceros but has a pouch like a kangaroo. These are the vital specifications of one of the strangest prehistoric beasts known. Henceforth, thanks to Ruben A. Stirton, professor of paleontology at the University of California, scientists will learn a lot more about the diprotodon than the few fragmentary facts which, in the past, enabled them to put together only a vague sort of passport picture...
...Strangest of all was the method of choosing the Senators for the first postwar term. Of the 344 Senators, 107 were Senators "by right," which means that they got their seats automatically: five appointed by the President for bringing renown to Italy; one for being an ex-President ; the rest for being oldtime anti-Fascist legislators or longterm political prisoners under Fascism. This constitutional oddity has worked to the Reds' advantage. They elected only 36 Senators in 1948, but picked up a bonus of 31 more seats "by right" among ex-prisoners. Together with the fellow-traveling Nenni Socialist faction...